Mountain biking and trail riding
Riding to school, exploring trails, and working on skills since Grade 7.
About
Curious about where an idea holds—and where it does not.
I move between equations, interfaces, mechanisms, and questions of educational access, looking for ways to make abstract ideas more testable and more usable.
I am a high school student based in Xiamen, China. Physics interests me because it turns complicated behavior into models that can be examined, tested, and sometimes challenged. I am especially drawn to the point where a clean approximation meets a less tidy reality. That question led me from a course-based Qiskit simulation to an independent study of when a two-state tunneling model remains reliable and when the evidence is not strong enough to classify a result.
I also enjoy building things that people can use. With Letter World, I began with a learning problem rather than a list of features: students may know a word’s meaning but still fail to recognize it quickly under time pressure. Product testing taught me to simplify the learning loop, listen carefully to feedback, and separate what I intended to build from what a student actually experienced.
Some of my design questions begin away from a screen. I have ridden mountain bikes to school and on trails since Grade 7. When my friends and I wanted to try barspins, the shifter cable became a very physical limit. Noticing the bottle-cage bolts on the frame led me to ask whether we could move the control instead of giving up the gears. I developed that idea with riding friends and discussed it with experienced local riders and bike shops. My design is now installed on my bike, and I have tested it.
My family connection to the Nanping area makes access to hands-on physics a personal question. Alongside desktop research, I have had preliminary conversations with three to four friends from Nanping about their physics learning and school experiments. Their experiences help me ask better local questions; they cannot represent every school. I am working toward teacher input and a carefully reviewed pilot before claiming any educational impact.
Away from projects, basketball gives me the rhythm of team competition, and piano gives me a different kind of long-term practice and performance. I also follow sneaker markets and pricing: how people judge value interests me, especially when that judgment changes with context. These interests are part of the same curiosity about how an idea works once it meets the people and constraints around it.
Beyond the projects
A few moments away from my desk.
On the trail, on stage, and in the things I collect and customize.
Horseback riding
A moment from riding practice.
On the trail
A view from a foggy hike.
At the driving range
Practicing at the driving range.
On the trail
Hiking with my father
My father on the left; me on the right. A moment together on the trail.
On stage
Playing a foreign merchant in a stage production. I'm seated in the center, holding the microphone.
Sneaker collecting
Three pairs from my sneaker collection.
Hands-on interests
Customizing my electric scooters
I've modified my electric scooters, working on the batteries, body panels, motors, controllers, and wheel rims. This is one of them.
Out for a ride
A short evening ride.
Me riding one of my modified electric scooters.
Original audio · about 8 seconds · no autoplay.
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At night, I ride an electric scooter along a tree-lined lane. The clip shows me approaching the camera and then riding away under the streetlights.
From riding practice
Not every ride goes as planned.
I want to include this moment, too: a fall during riding practice.
Includes a fall. Original audio · 16 seconds · no autoplay.
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In a fixed-camera view of a riding arena, I approach the perimeter fence on horseback and fall near it. The horse moves away, and people nearby move toward the area. This clip does not show what happened afterward.
Basketball and team competition
A place to practice decisions, timing, and playing with other people.
Piano, performance, and long-term practice
Returning to a piece, listening closely, and improving through repetition.